Don’t Let the Forest In is a mind-twisty horror/dark academia story about a boy named Andrew and his best friend Thomas. The summer break has just ended, but not everything is normal when the two come back to their boarding school. Thomas won’t tell Andrew anything about Thomas’s missing parents, or the blood that was on his sleeve, and Andrew’s sister, Dove, won’t talk to him like they used to. So ensues a magical world of what happens when the monsters from our stories wake up, and how we can fight them.
This book was a perfect blend of horror and dark academia, and the writing really set the tone for the book. The relationships here were also incredibly fleshed out and felt deeply real. The plot is perfectly paced, and the twist at the end had me rethinking the entire narrative! All in all, a really nice horror with a dark academia backdrop.